Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France

Garritt Van Dyk is Lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He has published essays in A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, EMaj, Eighteenth-Century Life, and Petits Propos Culinaires. He is a recipient of the Sophie Coe Prize for writing in food history.

• Introduction: The Economics of Taste, Chapter 1: Méthode Anglaise: Transnational Exchange and the Origins of Champagne, Chapter 2: Primary Sauces: The Rise of Cookbooks, Cuisines, and Corporations, Chapter 3: London Coffeehouse or Parisian Café? Chapter 4: Sugar and Empire: Tea's ‘Inseparable Companion', Conclusion, Bibliography.

Van Dyk's book stands out because it pushes the historical narrative further back chronologically... By focusing on food, Van Dyk claims to 'have relocated the development of national sentiment in England and France to the early modern period.'',- Troy Bickham, Texas A&M University, Food and History , 22.1, 2027